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Who: Jeffrey Yan, CEO of Digication When: Thursday, July 13 Where: 141 Bay State Road, Room 104 We are happy to announce the visit of Digication CEO, Jeffrey Yan, for a day of presentations on the New Digication interface and getting the most out of the system. Schedule Session 1, 9:30 – 11:00 am: Introduction to

BU supports a long list of technology platforms, each of which was chosen intentionally to serve a particular purpose and meet a particular need. EdTech is often tasked with evaluating platforms to determine if they still meet our university’s needs, and evaluating whether the adoption of a new platform could significantly benefit our students and

Geddes Language Center featured four faculty projects in its Spring 2017 Digital Faculty Showcase. Each faculty member displayed their recent and developing innovations in digital-based teaching practices. Flipping a Portuguese Language Class Celia Bianconi, senior lecturer in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and Adel Faudetzinova, lecturer in the College of Arts

In 2009, the College of General Studies began using Digication eportfolios for all students, redefining and deepening how both students and faculty understood the impact of the program’s learning experience. Nearly a decade ago Boston University’s College of General Studies realized the need for a better way to make students’ progress tangible. Some universities use exams

For this article we interviewed nine students from four of BU’s colleges, with eight different majors and a range of experiences with educational technology. They spoke about the challenges and successes they have experienced with educational technology, the programs that they like and dislike, and specifically what their instructors have done or could do to aid their

The Educational Technology Department has created user communities, as well as the Educational Technology Collective, to provide a place to speak about various platforms that can help improve instructors and students’ experiences. All of the information regarding EdTech’s user communities (what they discuss, when they meet, the topics of the next meetings, and more) is now

BU Educational Technology has concluded our investigation into different ePortfolio platforms. We investigated several competing products, including standalone portfolio systems competing with Digication, portfolio systems integrated with assessment-management and learning-management systems, and independent web platforms not devoted to portfolios, and we found that none of them had sufficient advantages to merit a change from Digication.

Educational Technology will be holding open trainings on the Digication ePortfolio system, covering Digication’s brand-new interface; creating courses, templates and assignments; and the Blackboard building block. They are scheduled for December 12 at 2 pm and January 24 at 1 pm. Anyone in the BU community is welcome to attend. You can sign up via IS&T’s

If you’d like your students to use ePortfolios but you don’t want to go through the setup process for assignments, there’s a simpler way to track what your students did when. Every Digication portfolio has a site map, accessible in the upper right of the portfolio below the BU logo. You can look at this site map to

Digication, BU’s ePortfolio software, now allows Google app documents, including Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Forms and more, to be embedded within an ePortfolio module. Students can create, share, and collaboratively edit a document in Google Docs and have the result be pushed to the portfolio, with the original revision history still available in Google Docs. You